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A certain Aegyptus, the brother of Danaus, having reigned as the seventh of the 19th dynasty 43 for 68 years, some time later near the 4000th year of the world, as will be set out there, who also renamed the country of Mestraea to his own name, Egypt. These things having been thus distinguished by us, let us proceed to the subsequent reckoning of the times from the flood, following the divine scripture and the historians who wrote in accordance with it. For after the flood, a king is nowhere immediately mentioned in it. But it says only that Noah was leader of his own sons and the rest of mankind for all the 350 years of his life after the flood. And after him Shem his son succeeded to the rule in a time of few men for the remaining 150 years of his life, and after him Arphaxad his son was leader for 33 years, so that the total of their three reigns after the flood becomes 534 years, and from the first father Adam, 2775. And in the times of Arphaxad, a little before, 7 years before his rule, that is in the universal year 2736, which was the 511th of the life of Shem, the 410th of Arphaxad, the 358th of Cainan, whom Eusebius did not reckon, the 230th of Salah and the 138th of Eber, and the 4th year of Peleg, the descendants of the sons of Noah, fearing that they might again be destroyed by a flood, wickedly decided to build a tower reaching to heaven, and coming into the land of Shinar, as the scripture says, they began to build, with Nimrod, the son of Cush, the son of Ham, the son of Noah, beginning and reigning over them, the beginning of whose kingdom was Babylon. For after building for forty years, with him especially inciting them to apostasy, they were confounded, being divided into a multiplicity of languages by God. But he remained there, dwelling and not departing from the tower, reigning over a certain partial multitude, upon whom the tower, having fallen by a violent wind, as they relate, struck him by divine judgment. And Josephus also mentions him, saying thus: From Josephus concerning the tower-building after the flood. Noah, having lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years and spending all this time happily, dies, having lived a number of 44 950 years. But let no one, looking at the present life and the brevity of the days and years which we live, by comparing it to that of the ancients, consider what is said about them false, concluding that since no one now continues for so long in life, neither did they arrive at that length of life; for they, being beloved of God and made by God himself, and because their foods were more suitable for a longer time, naturally lived for so great a number of years. Then, on account of their virtue and the usefulness of what they devised, astronomy and geometry, God granted them to live longer, things which it was not possible for them to foretell securely without having lived 600 years. Through so many years the great year is fulfilled. And all who have written the antiquities among the Greeks and barbarians bear witness to my word, Manetho who made the record of the Egyptians and Berossus who compiled the Chaldean accounts, Mochus and Hestiaeus, and in addition to these, Hieronymus the Egyptian, who wrote the Phoenician accounts, agree with what is said by me. Hesiod and Hecataeus and Hellanicus and Acusilaus, and in addition to these Ephorus and Nicolaus, relate that the ancients lived for 1000 years. And the sons of Noah, being three, Shem and Japheth and Ham, born one hundred years before the flood, were the first to descend from the mountains into the plains and made their dwelling in them, and they persuaded the others, who greatly feared the plains on account of the flood, to take courage and become their imitators. And the plain in which they first settled them is called Shinar. But when God commanded them to send out colonies for the peopling of the earth, so that they might not quarrel with one another, but by cultivating much land might enjoy its fruits in abundance, through ignorance they disobeyed

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Αἰγύπτου τινὸς καλουμένου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ∆αναοῦ βασιλεύσαντος ἐπὶ τῆς ιθʹ δυνα 43 στείας ἑβδόμου ἔτη ξηʹ, χρόνους ὕστερον ἐγγύς που τοῦ δ κοσμικοῦ ἔτους, ὡς ἐκεῖσε στοιχειωθήσεται, τοῦ καὶ μετονομάσαντος τὴν Με στραίαν χώραν εἰς τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα Αἴγυπτον. Τούτων δὲ οὕτω διειλημμένων ἡμῖν μετέλθωμεν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν καθεξῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ τῶν χρόνων στοιχείωσιν, τῇ θείᾳ γραφῇ καὶ τοῖς ἀκολούθως αὐτῇ γράψασιν ἱστορικοῖς ἑπόμενοι. μετὰ γὰρ τὸν κατακλυ σμὸν εὐθὺς οὐδαμοῦ δεδήλωται ἐν αὐτῇ βασιλεύς. μόνον δὲ τὸν Νῶε ἡγε μονεύειν τῶν ἑαυτοῦ υἱῶν καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀνθρώπων τὰ ὅλα φησὶ τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν ἔτη τνʹ. καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν Σὴμ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ διεδέξατο τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπ' ὀλιγανδρίας τὰ λοιπὰ τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ ρνʹ, καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ἡγεμόνευσεν Ἀρφαξὰδ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη λγʹ, ὡς γίνεσθαι τὰ πάντα τῆς ἡγεμονίας αὐτῶν γʹ μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν ἔτη φλδʹ, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ προπάτορος Ἀδὰμ βψοεʹ. κατὰ δὲ τοὺς χρόνους τοῦ Ἀρφαξάδ, μικρῷ πρότερον ἔτεσιν ζʹ τῆς ἀρχῆς αὐτοῦ, ἤτοι τῷ καθολικῷ βψλ ςʹ ἔτει, ὅπερ ἦν τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ Σὴμ φ ζδʹ, τοῦ δὲ Ἀρφαξὰδ υ ζγʹ, τοῦ δὲ Καϊνᾶν, ὃν Εὐσέβιος οὐκ ἐστοιχείωσε, τνηʹ, τοῦ δὲ Σαλὰ σλʹ καὶ τοῦ Ἕβερ ρληʹ, καὶ τοῦ Φαλὲκ ἔτος δʹ φοβηθέντες οἱ ἀπόγονοι τῶν υἱῶν Νῶε μήποτε πάλιν ἀφανισθῶσιν ὑπὸ κατακλυσμοῦ, ἐβουλεύσαντο κακῶς οἰκοδομῆσαι πύργον ἕως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ φθάνοντα, καὶ ἐλθόντες εἰς γῆν Σεναάρ, ὥς φησιν ἡ γραφή, ᾠκοδόμουν, κατάρχοντος καὶ βασιλεύοντος αὐτῶν Νεβρὼδ τοῦ υἱοῦ Χοῦς υἱοῦ τοῦ Χὰμ τοῦ υἱοῦ Νῶε, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς βασιλείας ἐγένετο Βαβυλών. ἐπὶ γὰρ ἔτη τεσσαράκοντα οἰκοδομήσαντες, ἐκείνου μάλιστα παρορμῶντος αὐτοὺς εἰς ἀποστασίαν, συνεχύθησαν δι αιρεθέντες εἰς πολυγλωσσίαν ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ. ἐκεῖνος δὲ ἔμεινεν ἐκεῖ κατοι κῶν καὶ μὴ ἀφιστάμενος τοῦ πύργου, βασιλεύων μερικοῦ τινος πλήθους, ἐφ' ὃν ὁ πύργος ἀνέμῳ βιαίῳ, ὡς ἱστοροῦσι, καταπεσὼν θείᾳ κρίσει τοῦ τον ἐπάταξε. μέμνηται δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰώσηππος οὕτω λέγων· Ἰωσήππου περὶ τῶν μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν τῆς πυργοποιίασ Νῶχος δὲ βιοὺς μετὰ τὴν ἐπομβρίαν πεντήκοντα καὶ τριακόσια ἔτη καὶ πάντα τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον εὐδαιμόνως διάγων τελευτᾷ, ζήσας ἐτῶν ἀριθ 44 μὸν Ϡνʹ. μηδεὶς δὲ πρὸς τὸν νῦν βίον καὶ τὴν βραχύτητα τῶν ἡμερῶν καὶ τῶν ἐτῶν ἀποβλέπων ἃ ζῶμεν συμβαλὼν τὸν τῶν παλαιῶν ψευδῆ νο μιζέτω τὰ περὶ ἐκείνων λεγόμενα, τῷ μηδὲ νῦν τοσοῦτον ἐν τῷ βίῳ παρα τείνειν χρόνον τεκμαιρόμενος μηδὲ ἐκείνους εἰς ἐκεῖνο τὸ μῆκος τῆς ζωῆς ἀφικέσθαι· οἱ μὲν γὰρ θεοφιλεῖς ὄντες καὶ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ γενό μενοι καὶ διὰ τὰς τροφὰς ἐπιτηδειοτέρας πρὸς πλείονα χρόνον οὔσας εἰκό τως ἔζων πλῆθος τοσούτων ἐτῶν. ἔπειτα δι' ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν εὐχρηστίαν ὧν ἐπενόουν ἀστρονομίας καὶ γεωμετρίας πλεῖον ζῆν τὸν θεὸν αὐτοῖς παρασχεῖν, ἅπερ οὐκ ἦν ἀσφαλῶς αὐτοῖς προειπεῖν μὴ ζήσασιν χʹ ἐνιαυ τούς. διὰ τοσούτων ἐτῶν ὁ μέγας ἐνιαυτὸς πληροῦται. μαρτυροῦσι δέ μου τῷ λόγῳ πάντες οἱ παρ' Ἕλλησι καὶ βαρβάροις συγγραψάμενοι τὰς ἀρ χαιολογίας, Μανεθῶν ὁ τὴν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ποιησάμενος ἀναγραφὴν καὶ Βήρωσσος ὁ τὰ Χαλδαϊκὰ συνάγων, Μῶχός τε καὶ Ἑστιαῖος, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ὁ Αἰγύπτιος Ἱερώνυμος, οἱ τὰ Φοινικικὰ συγγραψάμενοι συμ φωνοῦσι τοῖς ὑπ' ἐμοῦ λεγομένοις. Ἡσίοδός τε καὶ Ἑκαταῖος καὶ Ἑλλάνικος καὶ Ἀκουσίλαος, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις Ἔφορος καὶ Νικόλαος ἱστοροῦσι τοὺς ἀρχαίους ζήσαντας ἔτη α. Οἱ δὲ Νώχου παῖδες τρεῖς ὄντες, Σημᾶς καὶ Ἰαφθᾶς καὶ Χαμᾶς, ἑκατὸν ἔτεσι τῆς ἐπομβρίας ἔμπροσθεν γεγονότες, πρῶτοι κατελθόντες ἀπὸ τῶν ὀρῶν εἰς τὰ πεδία τὴν ἐν τούτοις οἴκησιν ἐποιήσαντο, καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους δε διότας σφόδρα διὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν τὰ πεδία ἔπεισαν θαρσήσαντας μιμη τὰς αὐτῶν γενέσθαι. καὶ τὸ μὲν πεδίον εἰς ὃ πρῶτον αὐτοὺς κατῴκισαν καλεῖται Σεναάρ. τοῦ δὲ θεοῦ κελεύσαντος αὐτοὺς εἰς πολυανθρωπίαν στέλλειν ἀποικίας, ἵνα μὴ στασιάζοιεν πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ἀλλὰ γῆν πολλὴν γεωργοῦντες ἀπολάβοιεν ἀφθόνως τῶν καρπῶν, ὑπὸ ἀμαθίας παρήκουσαν